Meet Our New Photo Editor. Making Creative Images on Your Phone Has Never Been This Fun and Easy.

Today, we’re rolling out a redesigned PicsArt that makes it faster and easier to create amazing images on your phone and to share them with the world. The new PicsArt is now available for free on Android and iOS.

Your creative experience with PicsArt begins with the photo editor. And in this release we’ve totally redesigned the Editor to give you more space to spread your wings and get creative, while making the universe of photo editing tools in PicsArt more accessible and easier to use.

To show what you can do with the new PicsArt, let’s take a photo of San Francisco’s beloved Golden Gate Bridge shrouded in summer fog and make it more inviting and fun.

We’ve done some spring cleaning throughout the Editor, leaving only the essential navigation features at the top and cleaner icons for the creative tools below. The Share and Save options are still available, but only when you need them, and that’s after you’ve finished editing and tapped “Done.”

The arrow on the left is for exiting the Editor but not before we confirm whether you want to discard your work or continue editing and save. In the middle, the single-arrow icon is Undo (to bring you back to your last edit) and the two-arrow icon is Reset (for getting all the way back to the original image).

Across the bottom, we’ve redesigned the icons for all the creative tools, from the basic Tools like Crop and Adjust, to the more advanced Draw, Clipart and Shape Mask. Swipe right see more tools for making your images into amazing works of art.

If you like the photo above, let’s walk through how we made it with the new PicsArt photo editor.

First, load the original “foggy” image of the bridge into the Editor. Tap Tools, Adjust and then lower the brightness so the layers we add in the next steps will stand out. To brighten the foggy sky, tap Add Photo and find a beautiful blue sky from the thousands of #FreeToEdit images that are available to you in PicsArt. Adjust your new blue sky to fit and then use the eraser to blend its hard edges with the background.

It might be fun to add a little more more visual interest by mirroring the bridge in the water below. That pretty easy — simply tap Effects, Distort and Mirror, then adjust the Offset. Just double-tap any of the Effects to show all the controls. San Francisco’s Bay is never that glassy but we can easily make it more realistic by adding the Motion Blur Effect to give it a more realistic turbulent look.

And what’s the use of a good view if there’s no one there to enjoy it? Add an image of a person next to the sea from #FreeToEdit, switch to the Hard Light blending mode, adjust the Opacity and Apply! Finally, to add some flair to the skyline, swipe right on the creative options at the bottom, tap Lens Flare, select a style you like and apply it to the image.

And voilà — my final image is ready to be shared with the world. Tap “Done” to have the option to share with the PicsArt community or the social network of your choice. And like before, you still have the option to save your beautiful image locally to your phone.

And that’s the new PicsArt. Redesigned to make it faster and easier for you to be as creative as possible and to share your inspiration with the world. We hope you enjoy it.

Meet Our New Photo Editor. Making Creative Images on Your Phone Has Never Been This Fun and Easy. was last modified: June 23rd, 2016 by Nathan Tyler

21 comments

@pa You rejected my city and full body shot edit for #wapside ways hike and now I am seeing several like this getting a high number of votes. I am seeing this kind of inconsitancy over and over again. I love your app but this problem must be fixed. Enough with the one size fits all for you reasons for rejection! How are these decisions made? I joyfully spend hours on these sometimes , but fighing for each one because you fail to be specific about the problem is exhausting ,and a time consumer . I don't think you want your paying customers (hello clip art!) to have to endure. On that note
….with 500-2000 entries perhaps allowing ties to place together your challenges would be reasonable ?. It is not as if any tangible prize (cash, a camera, free clip) is being rewarded…The reward is simply acknowledgement of your peers in the picsart community. If your staff is going to continue to make decisions about making three submissions with 50 votes each but they take 8th,9th,10th place then it should be because there is real life prize beyond hashtag recognition.
P.S. I can't' wait to try the updated app and please bring back the #fte challenge. I look forward to your challenges every week! Thank you!

Hi Amber! Thanks for your feedback! We are definitely working on updating our contests and voting. We think you'll like where we take them. And so glad you love the Remix Challenges! We're loving seeing everyone's creativity! Thanks for being so awesome.

I am in agreement with the above person's comments. I get pictures rejected time & time again & don't know why. Especially if I see a similar picture in the contest.
Also, the same people win over & over. It never gives us self taught amateurs a chance. Perhaps there could be contests for pros so amateur work could also be recognized. Perhaps give people levels by how many contests they win.

I also agreed with the comments here, but with regards to Featured images. I totally understand there are many wonderful images being submitted…however there is an equal amount of worthy images being ignored, I see users who attempt to submit their images that are worthy many times over… still only to be ignored. I've stated this before, it's very demotivating and works against the creative encouragement that PicsArt tries to instill in users. Very disappointing. It gives the user the feeling of @why even try".

Ah! We really love all of our PicsArtists! There are so many of you, and we really try our best to showcase as many awesome users as possible. But we'll always try to do better. Thanks for your note, and thanks for being so great!

Yes, I too agree with the above. Way too much favouritism to the same ole Featured Images yawn yawn. How about PRACTISING WHAT YOU PREACH, and make it worth while for up and coming new artists. I mean isn't that what you are all about ? And even more disappointing and unprofessional that PICSART have not or will not reply the above customers with a nice and honest explanation 😕😟

I'm sorry to say that even though I've been a loyal PicsArt user since the app first came on the market(years!!!), I totally agree with comments regarding contests and featured images. I also don't understand how you decide who makes it into the "up and coming artists" and "featured artists" feeds…especially when browsing the galleries of these individuals, only to find the entirety of their work consists of a total of 5 images. Who is making the decision to take these accounts and label them artists when their body of work hardly speaks to that? How does one become an artists? Quantity? Quality? Editing? Design? Equipment used? Popularity? (In your "Featured Artists" feed for example 2 accounts with 0 pictures and yet 9K and 19K followers respectively. Artists of what?! Publicity? In your "Up and Coming Artists" feed one account with a mere 9 pics yet 2K followers and another "up and coming" with 5 pics. Really?) It feels a little premature and very disheartening for those of us in the community who have vast galleries of high quality works and very little in the way of acknowledgement. Not that I am clamouring for recognition! After all, this is for me one of many creative outlets in my life and I am in the league of amateurs, simply using my camera phone to document the things I find interesting/beautiful/unique and spending very limited time to adjust and edit. It just adds to an overall feeling of being unappreciated by a developer that I have loyally supported from the very start of their enterprise.Anyway, as a graphic design and image editing app goes, for me PicsArt is the best on the market and the constant updates keep it relevant and interesting. I wholeheartedly submit my images to my gallery and the free to edit hash tag but I have the why even try attitude when it comes to the community and contests. Unfortunately it is inescapable! I'm not here to win a popularity contest and don't have the stomach to go soliciting for followers in order to secure myself a top spot in your contests/competitions just to receive a virtual pat on the back. It seems sad to me that artists work is rarely judged at face value. Instead you get an inbox full of 'I voted for you, lease vote back' messages with snapshots of artwork that perhaps doesn't spark any flame inside of you, and yet you feel in order to get somewhere you must sell yourself out! It's hard to compete against professional photographers and graphic designers – there is no distinction within the community to indicate whether this is something a person does for a living or on the side as an amateur/ professional amateur/ passionate enthusiast. I don't know how to change the community side for the better, but it definitely needs something to make it more inclusive, less elitist and more appealing to people who want to get involved.

Hi! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! You will definitely see some featured images with artists who may not have many uploads yet – and that's because we are trying to balance featuring our already super talented artists with all of the new community members sharing in our app! We know our community is always looking for inspiration, and we think new users can help provide that too. And we want them to feel welcome! But of course our system can always be better, and we will take your comments to heart. We love all that you do and always look forward to seeing what more you'll be creating. Thank you for being a part of our growth with us You are the best.

You took away half of my ClipArt Library. I had these downloaded for years. How is that right? now I have to buy new ones to replace the ones that I had and liked better? Please tell me this is an error.

Hi Wendy! That sounds like a bug. Can you contact support@picsart.com and I know they will assist you right away! Sorry. I know that must have been frustrating, but I assure you support will take care of you

After reading the comments, I have to say that I am reluctant to submit anything I might create using this trial copy of PicsArt's. The only thing I would really like to add having been involved in various contest over the past 60 years is only enter if you want a critic's approval or disapproval. You are the only one that can judge the art you submit and if you are lucky, one other person might like it.Just a thought.

I post a lot of pictures in my 2 fb groups. As an artist I have a great eye for what looks good. I need some really good frames. Pretty ones I can use with my pictures, not ones that cover up most of the beautiful picture I have. I need better choices, I'm not seeing what I need here. Otherwise I like your App.

I'm having trouble finding one of the features that I used regularly before this update. I have been a regular user since and submitter since 2013. When I would choose an fx from the menu I would go to the top and invert the feature and use the brush to apply the feature where I wanted, in the new design, I'm having trouble finding this invert feature. Any help?

Hey !! I love your app but i do agree with above comments. I am confused as to what is the true criteria to be featured coz i am totally new here, i just started submitting last month!! But one of my edits did get featured in "Remix Me Faves" ! I was thrilled but surprised the same! And yeah they are right. You need to have separate contests on basis of the level of experience like amateurs, pros etc.. That will do more justice to each and every community member thank you!